COIMBATORE: Vellalore town panchayat officials and Local Planning Authority (LPA) officials have been asked to take action on a residential building that violated norms. An RTI reply has revealed that the town panchayat president has been approving building constructions outside its jurisdiction.

UDHAGAMANDALAM: The water situation in Ooty town, ahead of the summer season, has been made worse with the failure of the usual heavy showers this April. With eight reservoirs in the area from where water is drawn to meet requirements having gone dry, the Ooty municipality is struggling to tackle distribution...
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COIMBATORE: Residents are facing the heat as Tangedco is struggling to meet the power demand. The state power utility had held back cuts until the polling day but has now given up, unable to supply sufficient power to residents.

V T Shahnawaaz, a resident of MGR Nagar near Singanallur, said the...
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COIMBATORE: Poll trends indicate that the residents of Vellalore had opted to vent their ire over the issue of shifting out the city municipal corporation's 600-acre dump yard democratically by registering a high voter turn out of 70% on Thursday. The residents of Vellalore and nearby areas exercised their fr...
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M Vijayabaskar, an assistant professor with Madras Institute of Development Studies, has worked extensively on the political economy of western Tamil Nadu. Amrith Lal speaks with him about the changing nature of politics in Coimbatore and its neighbourhood:

COIMBATORE: Nanjammal, in her eighties, clad in a yellow sari worn the tribal way was having her bare right shoulder massaged by her grand-daughter Radha Rangaswamy at the Anaikatty polling booth. She was resting for a couple of hours before she began the 90-minute trek uphill to return home. In addition to t...
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COIMBATORE: Voters from the most urbanised region of Western Tamil Nadu in Coimbatore parliamentary constituency failed to show up in large numbers, with turnout at just 68.1 percent. High drama prevailed outside the city with poll boycotts, bogus voting attempts and seizures of more than hundred saris that w...
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COIMBATORE: NOTA or None Of The Above option did not seem to be popular among residents of Coimbatore on Thursday. Most voters were not aware of the option and many who knew about it did not opt for it.

Despite the Election Commission ordering the district administration to educate and create a...
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COIMBATORE: As a first of its kind in the state, seed vending machines will be introduced by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) where people can buy vegetable and flower seeds from the machine by paying money similar to vending machines selling soft drinks. This is being introduced as a pilot proje...
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